“ATI Technologies Inc. today announced that Valve®, a leading game developer, has named ATI as the preferred graphics card partner for its upcoming game Half-Life® 2. As a part of this agreement with Valve, ATI customers will get the full Half-Life 2 game free* with the purchase of select RADEON(TM) products.
Built from the ground up with new shader-intensive games in mind, ATI's DirectX 9 hardware, like the RADEON(TM) 9800 XT and RADEON(TM) 9600 XT, has proven to be ideal development and gaming platforms for Half-Life 2.

”ATI has been a great partner on the engineering front. Our work with ATI has enabled DirectX 9 functionality that wouldn't have been possible with any other company,“ said Gabe Newell, Founder and Managing Director, Valve. ”ATI's hardware gives our customers the best experience with our software. So we've chosen to extend our relationship to include marketing initiatives that will showcase both Half-Life 2 and RADEON products.“

OK, so what does that ”*“ next to ”get the full Half-Life 2 game free“ mean?
* Shipping, handling and applicable taxes or customs charges are not included. Charges vary depending on purchaser's mailing address and method of delivery (i.e.; download vs. land delivery). Offer only available while supplies last.
In other words, Half-Life 2 isn't actually bundled with the cards: you'll just get a voucher or something like that entitling you to get a ”free“ copy eventually.”

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